Breaking News: U.S. Discovers Nearly $1 Trillion in Afghan Mineral Deposits

 

> Breaking News Alert
> The New York Times
> Sun, June 13, 2010 -- 9:22 PM ET
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> U.S. Discovers Nearly $1 Trillion in Afghan Mineral Deposits
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> The United States has discovered nearly $1 trillion in
> untapped mineral deposits in Afghanistan, far beyond any
> previously known reserves and enough to fundamentally alter
> the Afghan economy and perhaps the Afghan war itself,
> according to senior American government officials.
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> The previously unknown deposits -- including huge veins of
> iron, copper, cobalt, gold and critical industrial metals
> like lithium -- are so big and include so many minerals that
> are essential to modern industry that Afghanistan could
> eventually be transformed into one of the most important
> mining centers in the world, the United States officials
> believe.
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> Read More:
> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/14/world/asia/14minerals.html?emc=na
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